I said we were going to be going through these fairly quickly. I pray these words touch your hearts.
Jhn 5:19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise.
- Does this verse lesson Jesus authority?
- Scriptural reference Rom 8:28.
One of, if not the prominent underlying purpose of this gospel is to declare that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the son of God, and that in believing ye might know you have eternal life through His name and deed (John 20:31). There is a strong reoccurring theme throughout the Book of John of the Devine deity of Christ. This and following are some of the more prominent examples. We will examine a seven-fold proof of the deity of Christ as we study verse 17 through 29. We will look as the Lord sets before the Jews and for all that read here an absolute equality and oneness with His Father and I have a personal hope that we may believe and have eternal life.
Second in this verse we see the relationship and oneness to His father in will and purpose. These words are not said to limit or restrict the power of the Son but rather say that the Son cannot and will not act independently of His Father. For the will of the Father is the Son and the Son’s will is the Father’s. Some have mistakenly used this verse disclaiming the Sons’ equality with the Father, how contrary. This verse and the context of those around it explain the exact opposite. Our Lord is simply saying that He and the Father work together. That to see the acts of one is to see the acts of other. That He and the father act on a single will and that will is to do the work of the Lord and Glorifying God in the Father, Son, and Word, in name and purpose.
